Course summary
This master’s in Applied Social Research Methods equips you with the practical skills, academic knowledge, and professional attributes needed to design and deliver research projects from start to finish. The course focuses on building your capacity, expertise, and confidence in research, combining academic rigour with workplace readiness. Unlike other programmes, we dive straight into designing research projects aimed at addressing real-world social issues. Through workshop and activity-based learning, you’ll explore participant recruitment, stakeholder engagement, and various research methods, while also being introduced to project management tools and critical ethical considerations. The course emphasises interactive, hands-on learning over traditional lectures and essays. You'll work on your own projects in a collaborative environment, write research proposals addressing live social problems, and submit a portfolio of your work based on direct research experience.
Modules
- Core modules: Applied Research in Practice, Making Methods, Supporting Research: Leadership and Impact, Social Sciences Postgraduate Dissertation.
- Optional modules: You can choose one optional module from the core modules of other courses within this suite of postgraduate programmes, including Changing Lives: Living with Justice and Injustice, and Making Change Happen.
Assessment method
The course includes applied assessments relevant to your future career, with formative activities in workshops and final summative assessments. These may include a research proposal, pathways to impact presentation, reflective methods portfolio, data analysis briefing, and research report. Support will be provided for selecting assessment themes.
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
Entry requirements
- A lower second-class (2:2) or above in an undergraduate degree is required. - International applicants will be required to show proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5 (with no element below 6.0) is proof of this. We welcome applications from students who may not have formal/traditional entry criteria but who have relevant experience or the ability to pursue the course successfully. The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process could help you to make your work and life experience count.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
University of Salford
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WT